Nearly three centuries later, a Jamaican Maroon leader apologizes on behalf of ancestors who, as part of a treaty ‘signed in blood’ with the British, handed over runaway Africans back to plantations.

If the people need help, which they do now, get it to them by whatever legal means necessary. After all is said and done, we ...

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica-Leader of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth, Richard Currie, has rejected an offer by the government to mobilise members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to assist in the ...

CHARLES TOWN, Jamaica (AP) -- In a backwoods town along a river cutting between green mountains, quick-footed men and women spin and stomp to the beat of drums. One dancer waving a knife is wrapped ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a four-part series about the St. Croix Hiking Association’s recent trip to the Blue Mountain Wilderness Retreat, a rural area of Jamaica. Part 2 was published on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Frank Lumsden, a Jamaican who worked as a commodities trader in Chicago before returning to his homeland to focus on reviving the Caribbean island's Maroon culture in a backwoods ...

Accompong Maroons Chief Richard Currie has rejected an offer from Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness to deploy members of the ...

In the pantheon of Jamaica’s seven National Heroes, Nanny of the Maroons is the only woman. “Grandie Nanny,” as she is called, a middle-aged, unsmiling woman with cutlass in hand, is commonly ...

"Parts of this volume were originally published as The fighting maroons of Jamaica, by William Collins and Sangster (Jamaica) Ltd., 1969"--T.p. verso. https://siris ...

MOORE TOWN, Jamaica(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Jamaican pledge to protect a mountainous jungle region from mining is a long-sought victory by an unlikely alliance of greens and the descendants of ...

Chief of the Accompong Maroons, Richard Currie, is defending his decision to reject an offer from Prime Minister Dr. Andrew ...